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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Threat Level
Threat Level. It sounds like a bad action TV series doesn’t it? Well for years now America has had its own Homeland Security Advisory Scheme. Here’s what it looks like: Currently America’s on Elevated – the middle rung if you like. Obviously, we in the UK were really left out by this. It might be…
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Superman Returns
Today I went to see Superman Returns at my local multiplex. More of that in a minute. I just thought I’d highlight what a joy it now is to pay my money and watch a film at the cinema. It begins with the box office. There’s some stat that I’ve seen at work that says…
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thelondonpaper
Lots of news keeps coming out about News International’s new free evening newspaper – thelondonpaper (yes – it’s all lower case seemingly). It’s going to be distributed, at least initially, by a team of 700 people in zone 1 of London. They’re talking about 400,000 papers a day. Because Transport for London has yet to…
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Noel Edmonds
I note that the Daily Mail serialised Noel Edmonds’ new book “Positively Happy” last week, having first apologised for something they said about it. Edmonds talks about this in an interview with The Guardian today. All very lovely, but I had a bit of a flick through the book yesterday in a shop. OK –…
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YouTube Bigger Than MySpace – But Both Full Of Copyright Material?
Today’s Media Guardian reports how Alexa is now showing YouTube as having overtaken MySpace (note to self: when you create your Web 2.0, or even 3.0, company, ensure that it’s two words with no space and two capitals – it’s the law). I’m sure it’s fantastic news for YouTube, a bit like the way that…
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BBC Vodcasts
The BBC has released some news “vodcasts” of things like Newsnight and the News at Ten. Except that these are weekly highlights packages rather than full nightly editions. Still better than nothing. But I wish I could get them to work on my PSP. I don’t have a video iPod (or a normal one for…
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Cycling Licence Plates
You just know we’re entering silly season when you read stories like this. Ken Livingstone apparently believes that getting cyclists to fit licence plates so that they could be fined for infractions like jumping red lights or cycling on the pavement would be a good idea. I suspect that as this comment came during a…
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Landis on Drugs?
So what to make of the drug charges that newly crowned Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is chasing? I was amazed to read that it was Landis who’d been charged. At some point yesterday I heard a vague radio report that one of the riders in this year’s Tour had been found positive for…
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G24
I was wondering only the other day when G24, the Guardian’s new print on demand PDF service would start. Well it seems to have started today. I’ve got to say that is a great idea, and just right for commuters and people at lunchtime. If it’s automated, then all the better. The content already exists…
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The Long Tail
You may well have heard of the Long Tail by now. It’s all based on an article that this book’s author, and Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson first published in said magazine a couple of years ago. Simply put, it’s all about the value of the “long tail” of sales beyond the bestsellers, with plenty…
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Chugging
If you walk down a central London street like Carnaby Street, most lunchtimes you’ll come across in-street charity teams who are very keen to get you to sign up a direct debit order with whoever they’re representing that day. It’s called “chugging” – charity mugging. I’ve known for ages that these teams are not volunteer…
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Amazon Gorefest
Amazon is running a video commercial on their site for a book called The Death Artist. You can currently see the ad somewhere around the crime book section (I suspect that like other ads, it’s only shown a certain number of times, so it’s tricky to link directly to). Anyhow, the reason that this is…
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